Sunday, May 8, 2016

Hollywood Book Score

I was in Los Angeles for a long weekend, just arrived back in Portland today. On Thursday I went to Iliad Bookshop. This was my second trip there; my first visit was back in 2010 and it was a doozy! So was this one. What I love about the place is that they still stock vintage genre mass market paperbacks, and their horror section is quite large (so is their mystery and science fiction). I probably coulda bought more—lots of Dell/Abyss titles in stock—but I knew I was gonna have to lug these books home. I chatted about horror fiction, Michael McDowell in particular, with two of the folks working there. Today I found out one of them was author/editor (and Horror Writers' Association president) Lisa Morton! Funny coincidence. And of course their film section is top-notch as well. Check out these pix! This is truly one of the greatest, if not the greatest, used bookstore I've ever shopped in. If you're ever in Hollywood, you simply must go.

Nice haul. I'm sure you're already aware, but CHILDGRAVE by Ken Greenhall is by the same author of BAXTER / HELL HOUND, Jessica Hamilton (pseudonym) that you wrote about some time back (and were spot on about...loved that book...oh, and Centipede Press has HELL HOUND scheduled for a HC reprint soon). I picked up CHILDGRAVE a short while ago, but haven't yet read it.

SHADOW PLAY, the UK Beaumont, is a nice find, too! Gotta love those used bookstores that still offer horror pbs with pride.

Ah, I miss living in LA just for the bookstores! The Iliad is definitely one of the eat, but if you ever get the chance, I highly recommend Bookfellows in Glendale (aka Mystery and Imagination). They have a dedicated horror paperback section plus a killer hardcover section of rare finds like signed Skipp and Spector editions and oodles of stuff you my old boss, Clive Barker. Add to that the biggest SF paperback section Ive ever seen and a fantastic set of shelves focusing on specific authors (including Lovecraft), it's easily my favorite bookstore anywhere.

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